#the valis trilogy

[bharatiya-naari-sab-pe-bhaari]

Suggest me some some books... excluding self-help genre

Ooooo I have so many recommendations!!!! I can go on for forever. So, I don't know what you like to read so I'll categorize a few genres.

Thriller whoddunits

1. David Baldacci (all the books/series love em!)

2. Lee Child (most of his books)

3. Jeffery Archer (Shall we tell the President, The Eleventh Commandment, Over My Dead Body, The False Impression..etc etc)

4. Jason Bourne Series by Robert Ludlum (can also check his other works - The Chancellor Manuscript, The Osterman Weekend etc)

5. Sam Bourne (The Last Testament, The Final Reckoning, To Kill a man)

6. Robert Galbraith (The Cormoran Strike Series)

7. Jo Nesbo (The Harry Hole series , but if only you can stomach dark psychotic gory thrillers)

8. Dan Brown (of course)

Phew.... I can go on really but onto the next genre we go..

Historicals - Mythology and thrillers [Indian]

1. Kavita Kane (all her books)

2. Chitra Bannerjee Divakurni (Palace of Illusions, The Forest of Enchantments)

3. Ashwin Sanghi (honestly, all his books)

4. Amish Tripathi (Shiva Trilogy, RamChandra Series)

5. Aroon Raman ( The Shadow Throne, Skyfire)

6. Anand L Neelakanthan (Asura, Vali)

Romance and Classics

1. Gone with the wind

2. A love story - Erich Sehgal

Sorry, I don't do much romance :3

That's all I can think off the top of my head right now.

#my ask box #ask box #books #book recommendations #i have too many #thrillers #classics #romance #whoddunits #desiblr #desi tumblr

[sparatus]

Oh please I need to know about the des mafia au! 😘

YES god this one lives in my head fucking rent-free

wip title game

desolas mafia au

so this one actually started as a bit of a crackpot idea with @korblez because oops the friend oc intertwiner machine ran overboard. he has a whole clan of ocs for the turian mob, and through some timeline crack figuring we figured out that in my verse, the raid that killed desolas and saren's parents happened not terribly long before his oc marius left the military to found the zuikos'i, and that just kindaaaa "hey des has the personality of a mob boss, what if" and here we are

for setup: in 2118, desinian and veniria arterius are killed in a pirate raid on the remote colony town of ifura on carthaan, leaving their sons desolas (age 24) and saren (age 5) orphaned. desolas, serving his mandatory service in the army, was a part of the responding squadron, but arrived too late, and was the one to find his parents' bodies and rescue his brother from the woods behind the house where their mother had told him to hide. a couple years later, desolas has turned bitter and aggressive, having refused therapy for his growing depression and ptsd, instead clinging tightly to his last living family members (his brother, as well as his paternal grandmother and great-grandfather) and the few friends still stationed with him. saren has gone selectively mute, never making a sound except to wail inconsolably when separated from his aforementioned 3 relatives. major marius cassi, desolas's CO at the base on taetrus he was sent to after bereavement leave, sees the potential in him that's being smothered by his own downward spiral, and his heart breaks for him. when events in his own life lead marius to say "fuck it", leave the military, and found his own criminal organization, he makes the offer to desolas to leave with him and join him.

in the main verse, des of course turns him down, wanting the stability of the military so he can make sure his little brother will be provided for, but in this au he accepts, and joins marius in founding the zuikos'i. from there, i have a sort of trilogy:

the first fic is the setup, following both desolas and saren. with desolas we see the founding of the zuikos'i and his relationship with marius, finding a surrogate father figure in him as he navigates his own grief and trauma that he hasn't been allowing himself to process because he felt that saren needed him more. with saren, we stay home with the rest of the cassi family and watch him slowly heal and grow in his own right, and through his internal monologue learn more about what this little (selectively) mute child has seen that he will never give voice to.

in the second, we fast forward several years. this one is desabrudas-centric; desolas is a fully-fledged mob boss in his own right, while his old friend from the taetrus base valis abrudas has become an officer. both of them still remember the other and the bond they shared, and regret not being able to stay together, and hope the other is doing well. when a chance encounter pits them against each other, desolas gets a wild hare up his ass to pull valis over to his side, while she becomes determined to bring him in one way or the other, each remembering who the other used to be craving what they used to have. so begins a game of cat-and-mouse, a friends-to-enemies-to-lovers dance across the stars; the only question is, will she drag him back to the hierarchy by his crest, or will he sway her over to a life of crime?

the third main fic is kryterius. in this au, nihlus's father never dies, and nihlus grows up to be a rough-and-tumble terminus merc just like his parents before him. saren, meanwhile, is an enforcer, and isn't particularly invested in the job, but it's a good outlet for the destructive energy his biotics make while letting him pursue other interests on the side, plus he idolizes his big brother, so he's willing to stick with it. they cross paths by chance during a skirmish, and then keep crossing paths, to the point nihlus starts to mock saren that it's because saren is into him. while saren venting about the annoying shithead bastard freelancer who he definitely doesn't think is attractive no sir that keeps getting in his way, marius overhears and takes a surprising amount of interest, and saren is tasked with bringing nihlus in, alive. along the course of the hunt, saren slowly unravels more about this annoying red freelancer and his connection to marius - and, against his will, realizes he actually kinda doesn't want to throttle him too hard.

so, basically: heavily extremely self-indulgent au featuring a lot of friend worldbuilding (like, this would be a joint project, this would be a NoisyNoiverns-korblez collab crossover extravaganza patent pending) and des being a smarmy bastard and saren being a pining maybe-demi gay mess, thank you for your time

#press conference #threewhiskeylunch

[metaljesusrocks]

Almost an HOUR of GAME PICKUPS w/ Reggie!! Including a special edition game console I've been trying to find for YEARS! WATCH >> https://youtu.be/dp_gPcLR8Vk

GAMES SHOWN: Cannon Dancer Osman Tales of Destiny Special Edition PS2 Batsugun Saturn Tribute Boosted Akai Katana Shin Supercade (Book) Wanted: Dead Smashing the Battle: Ghost Soul The Letter Wife Quest Phantasmagoria Star Wars Jedi Survivor Resident Evil Shadowrun Trilogy Gal Guardians: Demon Purge Retro Inside PC stickers : https://geekenspiel.com Drainus Hogwarts Legacy Bullet Soul Mr. Run & Jump Kudzu Xeno Crisis Jamestown+ GrimGrimoire OnceMore Disney Illusion Island Snow Bros. Special Toaplan Arcade 2 ( Evercade ) Team 17 Collection 1 Piko Collection 3 The C64 Collection 2 UnMetal Scourge Bringer Brotherhood United American Hero The Valis Collection - Complete Set The Non-Playable Characters: Post Earth Episode 1 Autosaving Nail’d Resident Evil 0 ( PS1 ) Resident Evil 1.5 ( PS1 ) Wavetale Trinity Trigger Islets The Last Blade 2 साइबरपंक 2077 एक्सबॉक्स वन एक्स Nefasto's Misadventure: Meeting Noeroze

#metal jesus #metal jesus rocks #nintendo #game hunting #radical reggie #Youtube

[halleyscomment]

In the early 1970s, a strange phenomenon began to take place. ‘Signals’ or ‘Transmissions’ were sent from an unknown origin and received by three men independent of each other.

Man 1: Philip K. Dick - Author of numerous science fiction books including “VALIS,” a book about a man who receives information via a beam of pink light. He was motivated to write a book on the subject following his own experience with these transmissions. He claims that messages came to him in Sanskrit and Koine Greek, two ancient languages in which he previously had no knowledge of, but suddenly began to understand.

Man 2: Timothy Leary - Clinical psychologist fired from Harvard due to his research with LSD. He believed that he received interstellar signals, which he called the ‘Starseed Transmissions.’ He believed within the transmissions he received was a code that would facilitate mankind’s growth and return to the stars.

Man 3: Robert Anton Wilson - Author of “The Illuminatus Trilogy,” “The Cosmic Trigger,” and numerous other books. He claims that he received transmissions from Sirius.

Others such as Aleister Crowley, James Joyce, and Joan of Arc have also claimed to have received signals from origins unknown. (Of course some of these did not take place in the early 1970s.)

Each of these three men claims to have an idea of where the signals originated. Leary speculated that these signals may actually be from the same origin, but may represent themselves to individuals based on that individual’s cultural beliefs. For example a Catholic may receive a signal from an ‘Angel’ or somebody that believes in UFOs may receive the signal from an ‘Alien.’

Why do I bring this up now?

Of course, as you may have already guessed:

I have been receiving interstellar transmissions.

[thepaisleyreview]

Science-Fiction. Sorted.

Key: strikethrough means duplicate to be deleted ; bold means recommended ; I have not listened to everything.

A-C

Abbott, Edwin A - Flatland (1884) Banks, Iain M - Use of Weapons (1990) Bear, Greg - Eon (1985) Bester, Alfred - The Demolished Man (1953) Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles Brin, David - Startide Rising (1983) Brin, David - The Postman (1985) Brin, David - The Uplift War (1987)

Dick, Philip K

Dick, Philip K - UBIK (1969) Dick, Phillip K - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 1964 Philip K Dick - VALIS - 1981 Dick, Philip K - Broken Bubble (1988) Dick, Philip K - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (1966) Dick, Philip K - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) Dick, Philip K - Interviews [ note: unsorted ] Dick, Philip K - Mr. Spaceship (1953) Dick, Philip K - Of Withered Apples Dick, Philip K - Radio Free Albemuth (1976) Dick, Philip K -The Man in the High Castle (1962) Dick, Philip K - The Minority Report and Other Stories (2002) Dick, Philip K - Ubik (1969) Dick, Phillip K -A Scanner Darkly (1977) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick - BBC Radio

E-G

Effinger, George Alec - A Fire In The Sun (Budayeen 2) Effinger, George Alec - The Exile Kiss (Budayeen 3) Effinger, George Alec - When Gravity Fails (Budayeen 1) Farmer, Philip Jose - To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971)

Gibson, William [note: incomplete - have misfiled some]

Gibson, William - All Tomorrows Parties Count Zero (1986) (96kb mp3) Gibson, William - Idoru Neuromancer (1984) [ note: read by the author ] Pattern Recognition (2003) Virtual Light The Peripheral - William Gibson (2014) Agency Alien III An Audible Original Drama

H - Haldeman, Joe - The Forever War Hamilton, Peter F - The Reality Dysfunction (1996) Herbert, Frank - Dune Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon LeGuin, Ursula - The Dispossessed - 1974 LeGuin, Ursula - The Lathe of Heaven - 1971 LeGuin, Ursula - The Left Hand Of Darkness (1969) LeGuin, Ursula - The Left Hand of Darkness (Alt Copy) LeGuin, Ursula - The Word For The World Is Forest (1976) Lem, Stanislaw - Solaris (1950) L'Engle, Madelein - A Wrinkle in Time Lewis, CS - Out of the Silent Planet (1938) May, Julian - The Many-Colored Land (1981)

McDevitt, Jack - Chindi McDevitt, Jack - Engines_of_god McDevitt, Jack - Time Travelers Never Die -2009 McDevitt, Jack - Echo- Jack McDevitt McDevitt, Jack - Seeker McDevitt, Jack - The Devil's Eye McDevitt, Jack - Polaris-Jack McDevitt McDevitt, Jack - talentforwar.m4b McDonald, Ian - Hyberabad Days Morgan, Richard - Altered Carbon (2002) Niven, Larry - Ringworld - 1970 Niven & Pournelle - The Mote in God's Eye Pohl, Frederik - Gateway Powers, Tim - On Stranger Tides Powers, Tim - Declare Powers, Tim - The Anubis Gates Powers, Tim - Three Days to Never Reynolds, Alasdair Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds - 2000

Robinson, Kim Stanley - Aurora.m4a Robinson, Kim Stanley - Mars Trilogy [AudioBooks] Robinson, Kim Stanley - New York 2140 Robinson, Kim Stanley - The Years of Rice and Salt Robinson, Kim Stanley - Three Californias Triptych 01 - The Wild Shore [Rudnicki] Robinson, Kim Stanley- Three Californias Triptych 02 - The Gold Coast [Rudnicki] Robinson, Kim Stanley- Three Californias Triptych 03 - Pacific Edge [Rudnicki] Rucker, Rudy Rucker, Rudy - Ware 1 - Software Rucker, Rudy - Ware 2 - Wetware Rucker, Rudy - Ware 3 - Freeware Rucker, Rudy - Ware 4 - Realware

Sagan, Carl - Contact Scalzi, John - Old Man's War (2005) Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (1818) Simak, Clifford - Way Station (1963) Simmons, Dan - Hyperion Simmons, Dan - Ilium (2003) Smith, E E 'Doc' - Gray Lensman (1940) Stephenson, Neal - The Diamond Age (1995) Sterling, Bruce - Mirrorshades - The Cyberpunk Anthology

Wells, HG - The Invisible Man (1897) Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds Wells, Martha - Artifical condition Willis, Connie - Doomsday Book (1992) Wyndham, John - The Day of the Triffids (1951) Wyndham, John - The Chrysalids Verne, Jules - Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) Vinge, Vernor - A Fire Upon the Deep (1991)

[wien1983]

Samstag, 26.11.1983

Albtraum: Eine nackte Frau mit verbundenen Augen steht auf einem von Pferden gezogenen Wagen, hinter ihr gehen die Henker. Schweigend. Männer mit schwarzen Kappen, Löcher für die Augen. Das Bild ist aus dem Buch ANDERSENS MÄRCHEN, das ich als Kind so geliebt habe.

Botho Strauß Stücke müsste man wie Edward Hopper Bilder aufführen. Starre Monotonie, leierndes Sprechen, weite, weiße, leere Räume. Trilogie. Er wollte unbedingt eine Kerze anzünden, ich zünde jetzt zum Gedenken an ihn eine Kerze an. Seine Wünsche wurden ihm ausgetrieben wie kalte Frösche.

Um halb zehn oder noch später aufgestanden, ich weiß nicht warum, aber heute fühle ich mich ganz irrsinnig wohl. Jetzt weiß ich, wie ich den Ofen einschalten muss. Zuerst auf Stufe 6, da wird das Feuer gut verteilt und wenn es dann stark brennt, zurückschalten auf Stufe 1. Bin einkaufen gegangen und habe mir überlegt, was das Billigste wäre: Omeletten. Zu Hause habe ich das Geschirr gewaschen und Musik gehört: Talking Heads und Monique Morelli. Werde jetzt auf der Stelle zu arbeiten beginnen, das Referat ist am Montag.

Habe nicht auf der Stelle begonnen, sondern auf dem Klo im THEATER HEUTE gelesen, dann kam Herr Vorell und hat mein Fenster repariert. Las über Majakowskis Tragödie. Da stand, dass die Aufführung, in der Majakowski spielte, nicht so leicht nachgespielt werden kann, wegen der Majakowski eigenen Sprechweise. Mir fiel die eigene Sprechweise von Edek Bartz ein und dass er sich in der Buchhandlung Herrmann ein Buch von Majakowski ausgeliehen hat. Er wäre der einzig Richtige, um Majakowski zu spielen!

Ich gehe jetzt Omeletten braten, höre Radio und dann werde ich wirklich mit dem Referat beginnen. Mir fällt auch ein, wie fein es wäre, mit Claudius zusammen zu arbeiten, deshalb mag ich Gruppenarbeiten nicht, weil sich die Menschen so fremd sind. Die Liebe sollte aus der Arbeit kommen und aus dem Tag und nicht aus der Nacht. Jean-Luc Godard. Überhaupt haben mich immer diese Künstlerinnen am meisten berührt, die zusammengearbeitet haben wie Marina Abramović und Ulay. Brigitte Kowanz und Franz Graf. Beate Nitsch und Hermann Nitsch. Es gibt Lyrik von ihr. Valie Export und Peter Weibel. Yoko Ono und John Lennon. Andrea Dee und Gottfried Distl. Deshalb habe ich Tristan gebraucht, um so etwas entstehen zu lassen, aber er hat es natürlich nicht verstanden. Dafür war er zu egozentrisch. Er war halt doch nur ein Mann. Überhaupt fällt auf, dass zum Schluß nur noch die Männer übrig bleiben.

Noch lange herumgetrödelt, die Omelettes schmeckten so gut. Nach dem Essen fing ich mit der Arbeit an, habe weiter Zitate gesucht, dann legte ich mich auf den Diwan und habe an Claudius gedacht. Mir fiel plötzlich ein Brief an Marguerite ein, ich schrieb sofort alles auf. Es ist ein sehr schöner Brief geworden, danach habe ich weiter geschlafen und mich im Geist mit Claudius unterhalten. Aber so finde ich ihn nicht, es ist so monoton. Ich kann nicht immer nur von der Erinnerung zehren und weiß nicht, was ich jetzt machen soll. Ich muss ihn entweder sofort treffen, wenn meine Berechnung stimmt, muss das Ende November sein, oder vergessen. Jetzt ist Ende November.

#26.11.1983 #ari fink texte #barbara zanotti #wien 1983 #feuersalamander #vienna #wien #1983

[bookofdan]

[mtsainthelens]

compiling a favorite books list for the website and trying to give a pitch for each one but the valis trilogy is stopping me dead in my tracks like. where to even begin.

[shenanigans-and-imagines]

Movie night at the Loki household, what does everyone want to watch?

Loki: Kenneth Branagh’s four hour version of Hamlet

Sigyn: A comedy from classic Hollywood like The Philadelphia Story or Trouble in Paradise

Vali: Adventure movie like Indians Jones or even The Princess Bride

Narfi: The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, extended cut

#Loki #Sigyn #logyn #vali #narfi #marvel #mcu #loki fam

[alhakue]

MAGICAL MARCH 2021

16.         Hansel & Gretel – Yami Yugi (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Suggested by @super-lovely-collection​

You can’t have “Hansel & Gretel” with just one cinnamon roll so… We have Yugi as a guest!!!

I think I know them, so make a piece for them were easier than other days hehe This two lovely guys have powers that help them to defeat evil!

Yami can make and control fire (as the fire of the chimney that Hansel & Gretel used to kill the witch, funny lol). Yugi can exhale a sugar breath. At first neither of them saw use for that, but Yugi trained a lot and now he can use deadly variants: from fine needles and suffocating dust to a sturdy shield!!

Outfits were inspired by Hansel and Gretel from the original Spyro trilogy. Nice games.

I could make an AU someday…

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Magical March 2021

1. Sword – Vali Lucifer (Highschool DxD)

2. Cinderella – Pearl (Steven Universe)

3. Little Red Riding Hood – Mai Valentine/Mai Kujaku (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

4. Fairy – Mako Tsunami/Ryota Kaijiki (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

5. Sleeping Beauty – Chomosuke (Konosuba)

6. Goldielocks – Seto Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

7. Aladin – Naofumi Iwatani (Tate no Yusha no Nariagari)

8. Thumbelina – Clara Valac (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun)

9. Frankenstein – Kameo (Kameo: Elements of Power)

10. The Frog Prince – Shinobu Kocho (Kimetsu no Yaiba)

11. Kaguya-Hime  – Luka Couffaine (Miraculous Ladybug)

12. Snow White - Tomoyo Daidouji (Card Captor Sakura) 

13. Dracula - Purah (TLoZ: BotW)

14. Bow - Elio (Pokémon Sun & Moon)

15. Unicorn - Paimon (Genshin Impact)

#Magical March 2021 #Magical March 16 #Yami Yugi #Yugi Mutou #Yu-Gi-Oh! #yugioh dm #reference used

[magicalgirlagency]

Why do you think Madoka Magi got so popular? Like what made people put it on such a high pedestal for Magical Girl shows even tho,,, its not that good

I think it was because of the surrealism of Inu Curry. It's a huge contrast, if compared to the kooky inanimate objects of PreCure, and the crazy and gaudy humanoids of Sailor Moon.

As for the story, yeah... I don't see the appeal in death and suffering (and the girls haven't done anything to deserve it, to begin with...)

Not to mention that anything that Madoka Magica has done, has been already done in the past:

Death scenes? We had those since the beginning of the genre, with Cutey Honey, Minky Momo, Fushigi na Melmo, etc...;

Personification of the Soul is a gemstone/crystal/magic mineral? Sailor Moon has done it in some occasions;

Antagonic mascot? Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne did it;

Traumatized magical girl? Sailor Moon and HeartCatch PreCure quickly come to mind;

Magical Girl Goddess? Again, HeartCatch PreCure;

Heroine ascends to godhood and never returns to Earth? Have you ever heard of Valis III (it's a video game, but still...)?

And also... the things that happen in Kamen Rider Gaim are scarily similar to the PMMM movie trilogy... and Gen Urobuchi was a writer for this show...

...yeah, there ain't nothing original about PMMM, story-wise; only its surrealism.

[commenter2]

God of War plot ideas

I have been working on this for awhile but never had reason to finish it until now with the teaser for GOW Ragnarok coming out in 2021. Though it looks like GOW Ragnarok will be the last game of the Norse storyline, I still decided to leave this as a story for 2 more potential games, something the creators should consider doing given that that a lot of interesting things happen before and during Ragnarok in the real myth.

I can see the events of the second game happening near the end of Fimbulwinter where Kratos and Atreus have been living somewhat peaceful lives while still training to prepare for any godly foes, Atreus now knowing a few new skills like having the ability to heal Kratos a bit in battle or has learned to use Spartan Rage. Its also shown that Atreus has started acting a bit more like a teenager from acting out a bit more at Kratos and others to maybe showing that he has a crush on a girl that has moved into the area who also has a dislike for the Aesir.

This peace however ends when Atreus’s dream from the end of the first game occurs as Thor appears at their house, HOWEVER he is not there for revenge or on the wishes of Odin. Thor says that ever since Kratos killed Baulder, Odin has gone crazy about the coming of Ragnarok and it is driving him and the other gods nuts as well as make him unpredictable so Thor plans on checking on a few key elements that hint at the coming of Ragnarok and doing what he can to prevent them from occurring, thus slowing down the day of Ragnarok. He needs help however with a few of them and since Kratos started all of this he ask/orders them to aid him, and in exchange he help them avoid Odin. At first Kratos is hesitant given his past with gods but eventually agrees to help, maybe after having trouble fighting off a dangerous god.

Throughout the game Kratos and Atreus travel across the realms checking on several factors that are predicted to happen before Ragnarok like checking out the Fenrir wolf, the ship of the dead Naglfar, and the “roosters” of Hel to name a few. However each time they get to there target, said target almost starts another sign of Ragnarok and Kratos and Atreus have to stop it, which they do but with consequences that makes Ragnarok more unpredictable then before. For example I can see Kratos fighting Fenrir where he gives him a limp or breaks some of his teeth as a result or they accidently make the ship of the dead leave its port with some passengers and a few damages here and there.

Of course Kratos and Atreus also deal with monsters and other gods out to kill the ones who killed Baulder and/or effecting the signs of Ragnarok like Váli, a god in Norse myth literally made to get revenge for the death of Baulder, who could be the foe they had trouble fighting I mentioned earlier. I should quickly note that there are two Vali in Norse myth so I should say that this Vali is the son of Odin. Other enemy gods I could think of are Hod the god of darkness and winter who is the twin of Baulder,and the still vengeful Freya. Just like in the last game we would still get more info on the minor side plots that were in the previous game such as further exploring what happened to Tyr, go over Freyr the missing king of Alfheim some more, signs of there being Giants around the realms, and Atreus showing more signs of his Loki side maybe showing up after meeting that girl I mentioned earlier who could turn out to be Sigyn, Loki’s wife in Norse myth.

Eventually Thor, though clearly shown to be angry at Kratos’s actions throughout the game, give the duo one more task which is helping him kill the World Serpent. Kratos and Atreus refuse to do this, which finally causes Thor to snap and thus start a boss fight. However several factors occur during the fight like The World Serpent fighting Thor but causing the landscape to change, Freya appearing to try and Kratos, and Atreus trying to fight off Thor while also convincing Freya to stop this. Eventually Thor wounds the world serpent who retreats but not without getting wounded himself and also leaves but the game doesn’t end there as maybe a Giant appears to help out the serpent and the ones the resurrected him.

Because of this Odin makes his appearance and quickly kills the giant but after seeing Kratos, Odin tries to kill him as payback for causing Ragnarok. Freya tries to stop Odin saying Kratos is her kill, but he uses some magic to knock her out where Odin kills Kratos using the weapon Freya had ready for him. Maybe like in Fallen Order you could try to fight Odin but you always lose ? This is the final straw for Atreus as this finally makes him transform into Loki, symbolizing this by “giving birth” to the World Serpent, which in my opinion is what is going on in that image on the prophecy wall in GOW 2018. With his true self released and the realization that the Giants HAVE been reborn due to Faye’s ashes, Atreus-Loki and the giants walk to Asgard to start Ragnarok ending the game, but not before seeing Kratos’s body twitch a bit as a shadow is seen near his body.

The third game is the whole shebang.

The game could open with Kratos waking up in Valhalla where though he enjoys the beauty of the place, he tries to get out the area but before he can get a chance he is quickly identified as the guy who started Ragnarok and the warriors there start to fight him, starting the training level. Odin then makes a quick appearance there to fully destroy Kratos’s souls but before he can, Kratos disappears.

Turns out Freya brought him back to life and apologizes for trying to kill him as well as having a hand in turning his son against the gods but Kratos surprising forgives her as all he care as all he cares about is saving his son and stopping him from destroying to world like he did in God of War 3 with Freya taking up the role of Kratos sidekick. This could work as with Odin killing Kratos with Freya’s weapon, this fulfills her promise of killing him and she never said she couldn’t bring him back to life afterwards.

Throughout the game Kratos and Freya, along with Brok and Sindri on occasion and maybe a few new allies, travel the realms and partake in battles trying to not only to prevent Ragnarok from destroying the world but also try and save Atreus who Kratos believes can be saved. One idea for a new possible idea is a Vanir god since they would probably like Kratos’s reputation of putting the Aesir in there place, Heimdall is a fun choice given his popularity or Freyr who could finally be found if not in the 2ndinstallment of the Norse trilogy.

Since this is the finale then this game would obviously answer the big questions of the series if none have been explained in the 2ndinstallment game, like having a part of the game explain how Kratos got to this land. Maybe this could happen during a mission where Kratos has to go back to Greece to get the Blade of Olympus as it is key in destroying Atreus’s Loki side ? This game should also obviously explain what finally happened to Tyr. One idea I have for a possible story is how Tyr much like Kratos was able to get to the Norns (who are like the Greek Fates) but only to glimpse the future, and seeing Kratos is key to a better, peaceful future he created several events in the 2016 game so that this can happen. I know this isn’t a great idea but its something. Also maybe Thor does fight the world serpent again but this time the one Loki gave birth in the previous game where they fight and the World Serpent is sent back in time as mentioned in the 2016 game

Eventually Kratos, his allies, the Aesir, and Loki’s forces will all end up on Vigrid (the name of the final battlefield) where a huge battle will commence and after doing a few things to aid his allies (like maybe killing Thor in a rematch if that doesn’t happen already) Kratos will finally fight Odin. Kratos obviously defeats him but maybe in a bit of a twist, he spares his life after realizing how similar fighting him was like when he fought his father but this time its Odin who kills himself, accidently of course by doing something out of fear that leads to his own demise like maybe charging Kratos with a spear only to miss and be killed by Fenrir like in the prophecy. FINALLY Kratos and Atreus meet on the battlefield and the two fight each other, maybe the fight could have stages but eventually using the Blade of Olympus or maybe the Blades of Chaos Kratos is somehow able to destroy Atreus’s Loki part and releases the true Atreus who has been struggling to get free but as a consequence Kratos get severely wounded.

Maybe the game and the series ends on a note where Kratos dies but not before making peace with Atreus, Freya, and the others for causing all of this and dies happily and Atreus deciding to travel the world with Mimir as the new God of War but like Tyr trying to end conflict, and maybe trying make the gods of other mythologies care more about humanity.

Would you like to see any of theses things happen in the 2021 game ? What do you hope will happen ?

#god of war #god of war ragnarok #playstation #playstation 5 #video games #kratos #atreus #mimir

[alcego-writes]

Had a terrible thought earlier while trying to convince ringworm cats to stay out of my shower & realized that the way I’m tying the age old theme “absolute power corrupts absolutely” to magic means that there is a Very high chance Valis will be the final Big Bad. Also realizing that I am physicaly incapable of writing books that are not part of a trilogy.

#corrupt! Valis has so much potential! #also means i can go into the official 1st draft with a goal in mind for Valis’s therapy #V’s Therapist: your problem is that you care too much about the ways magic can corrupt you #Valis - internally: that is the exact opposite of what i’m afraid of #character: valis #wip: the lion’s share

[strongbeautifulfulloflight]

Hi Dee I am so very sorry that you will abandon double crossed ! It’s such a pity and you shouldn’t give up on your story because it’s the last one of your trilogy and you cannot let us down :( I understand that real life gets in the way but I hope you will find your mojo back to finish it soon. Anyway thank you very much for this amazing fic that I love so much . Ciao ! Valy

Oh, my Valy. I love you so. 

So, I haven’t officially decided to abandon it yet. I’m going to see how the summer goes, since I can get back into writing once this semester ends in a a few weeks, and hopefully I’ll get my mojo back and can finish the story. I just wanted to put it out there that there’s a strong possibility I may not. I’m really dying to work on my novel series and I’m so so close to finishing the first draft of that. I’m really just not as dedicated to writing Klaroline as I used to be. I kind of snuck out of the fandom, and trust me when I say I feel terrible for all of the requests I never fulfilled, and super guilty that I’m even considering walking away from DC. I will totally keep you posted, though, and I’ll try to stay positive!

#my loveliest love #fanfic babble #klaroline #asks #not so anon #anonymous

[hayingsang]

What I read in 2021

In 2021 I gave myself the challenge of writing at least 250 words on each book I read, with those words having to be of decent-enough quality to be posted on my blog without too much embarrassment.

I more or less managed that, writing something about every book, usually but not always 250 words, sometimes quite a bit more, and on a couple of occasions running notes on two books together in one entry. Only one book didn’t get a post – Stephen Vines’ Defying the Dragon – because I wrote a review of it for Literary Review. In the list below, I’ve linked to the post for each book.

In terms of quantity, I finished 66 books, coincidentally exactly the same number as in 2020, and so also one of the lowest counts of recent years. I had intended to have a reading moratorium of a month or so at some point, but it never quite happened – too many odd books to be rounded off, or some such reason. The closure of Hong Kong’s public libraries also shaped my reading in the first couple of months of the year: unable to borrow books, I finally read several that had been sitting on my shelves for years, almost all of which turned out to be worthwhile, though the random nature of their subject matter went a long way to explaining why they had been sitting there unopened for so long (a massacre in Buenos Aires, Edward O Wilson, the parallel lives of Hayek and Keynes, Georg Lukac’s view of Lenin, etc.).

Also as in recent years, half the books I read were by women, something which continues to be harder than it ought it to be. I only finished two books in Chinese; for no particular reason my desire to spend a non-trivial amount of time daily decoding characters waned a little last year.

As to what stood out, top of the list was the time spent reading Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Portable Hannah Arendt and her correspondence with Mary McCarthy, Between Friends. The plan is to keep reading her in the first months of this year, taking in The Human Condition and The Life of the Mind. What makes her so satisfying is she clearly never stops thinking; her works are all ideas in progress – her best possible interpretation of one subject or another that merits a lot of hard thought. It’s often hard to say what her books are about, which is usually a strength but occasionally a source of frustration, seen in the one book of hers I read that’s not in the list above: The Promise of Politics, a collection of unpublished material released 30 years after her death; there wasn’t enough there to justify reading it, at least not for the non-professional Arendt reader.

Of the fiction I read, Joyce Carol Oates’ Blonde was the high point, an epic work about Marilyn Monroe’s life. I also hugely enjoyed rereading Philip K Dick’s Valis– just the right side of madness – with Olivia Manning’s Levant trilogy the most surprising titles with their depiction of British expat life in Egypt in the second world war.

For classics, after loving Virgil’s The Aeneid a couple of years ago, I went on to tackle the very different The Eclogues and The Georgics – hugely sophisticated poetry. A book to keep beside my bed for the rest of my life.

Lydia Davis’s Essays carried on where her short stories left off. She’s one of the most original thinkers about writing I’ve ever read. Can’t rate her too highly.

The best book I read about Hong Kong was one of the two books I read in Chinese, 徐承人’s 香港 : 鬱躁的家邦, though it was far from only being about Hong Kong. More than half the book is about events in the tract of land in the East Asian land mass which is now occupied by the southern half of China. Let’s just say Eric Tsui doesn’t buy into ideas of a Chinese nation with an uninterrupted history.

On China, Stephen Platt’s Imperial Twilight and Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom are extraordinarily rich on the West’s encounters with the Qing empire and the Taiping civil war respectively. Both do a remarkable job in giving people agency: history being made by people making decisions which had outcomes. This is how history should be written.

James Mann’s About Face was also outstanding on the way in which US leaders and officials ran America’s relationship with China from Nixon to Clinton. Obviously of continuing relevance.

Branko Milanovic’s Capitalism, Alone threw light on how to think of capitalism now it’s the world’s only economic system – can it be reformed? We have to hope so, because there’s no visible alternative out there.

David Wootton’s The Invention of Science over-eggs some of its arguments about how Western science came into being, but nonetheless is fascinating in the way it tracks the ways in which new ideas needed new words, new processes (experiments), new ways of thinking (hypotheses), eventually leading to a new form of knowledge – science.

Finally, Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh, about a police shooting of several men on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1956, first published in 1957, was my most disturbing read. Its account of just how nasty people can be foretells the far worse killings that were to take place in Argentina a couple of decades later.

The list in full (in the order I read them):

Julia Kristeva, The Samurai

Ma Jian, The Noodle Maker

Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

David Wootton, The Invention of Science

Rodolfo Walsh, Operation Massacre

Philip K Dick, Valis

Virgil, The Eclogues and The Georgics

Georg Lukacs, Lenin

Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Nicolas Wapshott, Keynes Hayek

Edward O Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth

Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern

Stephen Platt, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

James Millward, Eurasian Crossroads

Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes

Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde

Stephen Platt, Imperial Twilight

Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise

Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

徐承人, 鬱躁的家邦

Ursula Le Guin, Always Coming Home

Joyce Carol Oates, American Appetites

Ursula Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan

John Wakefield (ed), Cantonese as a Second Language

Stephen Vines, Defying the Dragon

Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart

Olivia Manning, The Danger Tree

Sarah Stewart Johnson, The Sirens of Mars

Keith Martin, Cryptography

Olivia Manning, The Battle Lost and Won

Olivia Manning, The Sum of Things

Ibram Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Vaclav Smil, Growth

Martin Ford, Architects of Intelligence

Various, 記者，上返行人路

Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

Various, Rabbits, Crabs, Etc.

Deborah Levy, Hot Milk

Dante, The New Life

Naomi Michison, Not By Bread Alone

Toni Morrison, A Mercy

Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, Mark McDaneil, Make It Stick

Fay Weldon, Worst Fears

Olivia Manning, The Rain Forest

Ursula Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

Tim Summers, China’s Hong Kong

Andre Breton, Nadja

Sue Prideaux, I am Dynamite

Thomas Gordon, Parent Effectiveness Training

Ruth Padel, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem

Hannah Arendt, The Portable Hannah Arendt

John Le Carre, The Honourable Schoolboy

David Runciman, How Democracy Ends

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Alexander Zouev, 45 Tips, Tricks, and Secrets for the Successful IB Student

James Mann, About Face

Rowena He, Tiananmen Exiles

Lydia Davis, Essays

Hannah Arendt, The Promise of Politics

Alice Poon, Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong

Virginia Tufte, Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style

Jessica Stern, The Ultimate Terrorists

Hannah Arendt & Mary McCarthy, Between Friends

George Orwell, Animal Farm

Branko Milanovic, Capitalism, Alone

[thelivingautomaton]

i started reading VALIS by my man philip k dick today and here’s a brief, summarized list of my reactions to the first 20 pages or so:

oh my god

oh my god

oh!!! my god!!!

*muffled, with my face in my hands* oh my godddddddddd

#Kristina rants about books #translation: it is incredible so far #like y'all. if you read slaughterhouse-five and said to yourself: #'there needs to be a book like this except MORE disjointed and metafictional and confusing -- #'-- and it should focus on religion and mental illness instead of ptsd and the incomprehensibility of war' #THEN HAVE I GOT A RECOMMENDATION FOR YOU #for real the increasingly blurry line between the narrator/horselover fat/pkd himself is amazing #and i haven't even gotten to the REALLY zany stuff #i plan to read radio free albemuth + the rest of the trilogy + the exegesis when i can but i think VALIS stands on its own. probably #anyway it's good and weird and i absolutely love it to pieces